On Bridging Prolog and Python to Enhance an Inductive Logic Programming System

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2025

Authors

Santos Costa, VMdM (Author) Other; Miguel Areias (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages - 27th International Symposium, PADL 2025, Denver, CO, USA, January 20-21, 2025, Proceedings

Pages: 1-17

27th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2025

Denver, 20 January 2025 through 21 January 2025

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Computer engineering

FOS: Natural sciences > Computer and information sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-018-CCQ

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84924-4_1

Abstract (EN): Prolog is a programming language that provides a high-level approach to software development. Python is a versatile programming language that has a vast range of libraries including support for data analysis and machine learning tasks. We present a Prolog-Python interface that aims at exploiting Prolog deduction capabilities and Python¿s extensive libraries. Our novel interface was built using a divide and conquer methodology. In a first step, we implemented a set of C++ classes that can be matched to Python classes; next, we used an interface generator to export the relevant classes. Finally, we use C code to actually convert between the two realms. In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the interface, we enhance an Inductive Logic Programming System with a visualization capabilities and show how to interface with a standard classifier. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16